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Friday, December 03, 2010

Mattie and the Girls

Mattie and the Girls

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My paternal grandmother, Mattie, is the woman upper left in this photo from the 1920s. Dressed as they are one would think they've been been to choir practice but that roundish thing one woman is holding looks suspiciously like a football... or maybe it's a watermelon. Aren't you glad we don't dress like that anymore?

I simply cannot bring myself to use the originals of family photos unless I have more than one copy, though I doubt that my descendants will have any use for them. But you never know who will be interested in what. There are lots of photos but still not enough for me... I would like to have more and to know the stories. Mattie was an incredible woman but I only knew her as a child and didn't pay good enough attention.

Hi Jo. I have been away from the blog world for awhile- first with a trip home to Hawaii and then home in time for heavy snow storm and Thanksgiving and now xmas shopping and decorating.. wanted to tell you how much I like your current series (which I believe in very strongly)on your family and family memories.

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Art Tip: brush cleaning

As I work with acrylic medium for glue or with acrylic paints I stand my brushes in a bucket of water on my work table and give them a soap and water cleanup every day or so. But eventually my brushes get gunky and sometimes I forget to clean them. That's when I clean them with Murphy's Oil Soap. I keep an inch of MOS mixed 1:1 with water in a tall plastic tub (Feta from Costco) and put caked brushes in that solution overnight. By the next day the soap has softened the brush and with a bit of elbow grease I can get the brushes back to useable. This also works for brushes used with oil paint. I gave up using oils but wanted to save those good brushes and Murphy's Oil Soap came to the rescue. Get it at the grocery store.